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Y MARKET TRUCK. No. 284,881. Patented Sept. 1l, 1888.

lll Il UNITED STATES PATENT ERICE.

AMANDA MORRISON, OF VILMINGTON, NORTH CAROLINA.

MARKET-TRUCK'.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 284,881, dated September 11, 1883.

Application sied March 12, ists. (No model.)

.will be particularly applicable to the wants of grocers, marketdealers, truck dealers, and others who nd it necessary to distribute a variety of different articles, and who may iind it desirable or convenient to keep such articles separate without putting the same up in packages, thus saving the time and trouble necessary to thus put them up, while the articles are in condition to be readily measured out and distributed in quantities as may' be required. These objects I attain by the apparatus and devices illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l represents a longitudinal vertical section, and Fig. 2 a transverse vertical section, of my improved apparatus.

The letter A indicates the body, which is mounted upon a wheel or wheels, B, at one end, and at the other is provided with the usual handles, O. The lower sides of the barrow slope from the legs D to the opposite end of said barrow, for the purpose hereinafter described.

The letter E indicates a partition or the bottoni proper of the apparatus, which, with the sides A and ends F, forms a receptacle for articles in bulk, the said receptacle forming the main compartment of the barrow. Near the upper edges, on the inside of this receptacle, are secured the cleats G, which form a seat and support for a'series of receptacles or boxes, H, which are provided with hinged covers I. The said boxes serve to close the receptacle or main compartment of the barrow, and at the same time to hold articles of various'descriptions. Below the partition or bottom E is an inclined partition forming a receptacle or compartment, K, below the main compartment. This compartment is open at one end for the reception of articles.

It will be observed that as thus constructed the entire space between the sides is utilized, and a compact and convenient barrow is p roduced, and which is particularly applicable to the uses above enumerated.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isl A hand or wheel barrow with a main compartment and an angular compartment below, the main compartment being provided with a seat near its lupper edges for a series of receptacles or. boxes which serve to close the main compartment as well as to hold articles, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

AMANDA MORRISON.

Vitnesses:

DU PONTZ'GUTLAR, RICHARD J. JoNEs. 

